People caught vandalising public property should be forced to pay for the damage according to a Dublin councillor.
It comes after a number of benches and high-tech bins were set on fire at Herbert Park in Ballsbridge.
The series of incidents have happened over a number of months.
Some of the damage deliberately caused to benches and bins at Herbert Park in Ballsbridge following a number of incidents in recent months pic.twitter.com/7Enn5apNT1
— Emma Tyrrell (Ní Riain) (@EmmaNiRiain) March 30, 2022
Gardaí say they're investigating an incident of criminal damage that happened in the early hours of last Sunday morning, sometime between midnight and 1am. A number of bins were set on fire.
They say no arrests have been made and investigations are ongoing.
Another random of act of vandalism in our beautiful Herbert Park.
I will be raising this issue tomorrow with the Chief Superintendent for the area when I chair the South East Area Joint Policing Committee. pic.twitter.com/WuuPMWQnN7
— Cllr Claire O'Connor (@ffclaireoconnor) March 23, 2022
Labour councillor Dermot Lacey says the damage could cost €14,000;
"We don't seem to see anti-social behaviour as being the serious crime that it is and I believe we have to hit people where it hurts, in their pockets. The people who cause this damage I think should be forced to, in addition to whatever sentence the courts hand down, we need to find a way that they will actually have to pay for that damage."
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